clean (one's) plate (up)
clean (one's) plate (up)
To eat all of the food that is on one's plate. He's usually a really picky eater, so I'm shocked that he cleaned his plate! You'll have to clean your plate up if you want dessert.
See also: clean, plate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
clean (up) one's plate
to eat all the food on one's plate. You have to clean up your plate before you can leave the table. Mom said we can't watch TV tonight unless we clean our plates.
See also: clean, plate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- clean plate
- plate, to have a lot/enough on one's
- a lot on (one's) plate
- rabbit food
- plate
- (one's) plate
- plates
- eat (something) out of (something)
- eat out of
- picky